It is easy to be offended and scandalized at how God chooses to work in our life. It is easy to think that God doesn’t care, or that God does exist. That’s the easy route. But blessed is the one who doesn’t abandon ship because things aren’t exactly how they would have them.

Advent is meant as a wake-up call to this second coming! Just like Jesus came once, he will come again.

We know that there is some insurmountable gap between us and what we truly want. When we look at our experience, that is what we find.